AP World History Chapter 40 Flashcards
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| 6263163701 | Mikhail Gorbachev | U.S.S.R premier after 1985; renewed attacks on Stalinism; urged reduction in nuclear armament; proclaimed policies of glasnost and perestroika | 0 | |
| 6263163702 | glasnost | Policy of openness or political liberation in Soviet Union put forward by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s | 1 | |
| 6263163703 | perestroika | Policy of Mikhail Gorbachev calling for economic restructuring in the U.S.S.R. in the late 1980s; more leeway for private ownership and decentralized control in industry and agriculture | 2 | |
| 6263163704 | Berlin Wall | 3 | ||
| 6263163705 | German reunification | 4 | ||
| 6263163706 | Boris Yeltsin | Russian leader who stood up to coup attempt in 1991 that would have displaced Gorbachev; president of the Russian republic following dissolution of Soviet Union | 5 | |
| 6263163707 | Commonwealth of Independent States | 6 | ||
| 6263163708 | Chechnya | 7 | ||
| 6263163709 | Vladimir Putin | 8 | ||
| 6263163710 | Second US-Iraq War | 9 | ||
| 6263163711 | Hugo Chavez | 10 | ||
| 6263163712 | Yugoslavia | 11 | ||
| 6263163713 | Bosnia | 12 | ||
| 6263163714 | Kosovo | 13 | ||
| 6263163715 | Saddam Hussein | 14 | ||
| 6263163716 | First US-Iraq War | 1991 war led by United States and various European and Middle Eastern allies, against Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. The war led to Iraqi withdrawal and a long confrontation with Iraq about armaments and political regime | 15 | |
| 6263163717 | Rwanda | 16 | ||
| 6263163718 | Hutu | 17 | ||
| 6263163719 | Tutsi | 18 | ||
| 6263163720 | "boy soldiers" | 19 | ||
| 6263163721 | European Union | 20 | ||
| 6263163722 | euro | 21 | ||
| 6263163723 | Somalia | 22 | ||
| 6263163724 | September 11, 2001 | 23 | ||
| 6263163725 | "War on Terror" | 24 | ||
| 6263163726 | Al Qaeda | 25 |